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ALENIO, GIULIO (1582-1649)
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See also:ALENIO, GIULIO (1582-1649) , See also:Italian Jesuit missionary, was See also:born at See also:Brescia. He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the See also:East. He landed at See also:Macao in 161o, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into See also:China busied himself for three years in teaching See also:mathematics. His See also:thirty years' See also:residence in China was marked by unceasing zeal and considerable success. He adopted the See also:dress and See also:manners of the See also:country, was the first See also:Christian missionary in Kiang-si, and built several churches in Fo-Kien. He wrote in See also:Chinese a See also:Life of See also:Christ (See also:Pekin, 1635-1637, 8 vols.; often reprinted, e.g. in 1887 in 3 vols., and used even by See also:Protestant missionaries) and a cosmography (Iche See also:fang See also:wai ki Hang-chow, 1623, 6 vols.), which was translated into Manchu under the See also:title The True Origin of 10,000 Things, a copy of which was sent from Pekin to See also:Paris in 1789. Alenio died at Fu-chow in 1649. For bibliography see de Backer and Sommervogel, Bibl.de la Cie. de Jesus, i. 158-160. End of Article: ALENIO, GIULIO (1582-1649)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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